Ultimate Road Trip

    
Today Darce and I started off our day with a superstart breakfast.  The superstart breakfast sounds pretty bad ass but it’s only a continental breakfast at the Super 8 motel hahaha.  We checked out at 11 a.m. and needed something to do until the game which only started at 6 p.m.  We ended up going to Wal-Mart to get tooth paste and some groceries. For the past couple days we have been dry brushing our teeth (without toothpaste). After that we went to watch the movie 21 at the theatre.  It was a good movie and it gave us something to do on this rainy afternoon. 
  We then headed to Chicago for the Blackhawks game.  They faced off versus the Columbus Blue Jackets at 6pm.  The game was really intense.  We had a good view and we were sitting right in front of the announcers for the Blue Jackets.  It was kind of like having the announcers of the TV and watching it real life. Chicago were losing 3-1 and then came back to tie the game. The game went to overtime and then to shoot out. We were pumped. We never saw a shoot out in person.  Chicago came out on top and won the game.  All in all it was really intense and a fun time. The drive to and from the game went a lot better then we expected. We thought it would be ridiculously busy, but I guess since it was Sunday and raining it wasn’t that bad.  Tomorrow morning we are driving 7 hours east through Indiana, Ohio and ending up in Pennsylvania. The next game is in Pittsburgh and should be another really good one.

 
The Xcel Energy Center is the arena in St Paul where we watched Minnesota Wild vs Vancouver Canucks.  Minnesota played really good and Vancouver played poorly.  The end result of the game was Vancouver losing 4-0.  It was still fun to be there even though Vancouver lost. The arena is fairly new and the nicest one I saw so far. We had seats in the upper section and the view was awesome. I was really impressed.  Would have been more impressed if Vancouver would have won, but it’s all good. We had lots of fun

    
After snacking down our continental breakfast, Darce and I headed to St Paul Minnesota.   St Paul is really nice. We spent a lot of time visiting it today.  We went to the Science Museum of Minnesota which was pretty cool.  It had a lot of exhibits but it also had tons of kids. We walked around town and even got to see the Mississippi River.  The Mississippi River is super long and I didn’t even know it passed in Minnesota.  It was cool to see the exhibits at the museum about the river.  The weather was nice and all in all it was a good afternoon killing time for the hockey game

 
Here are all the games we will be attending. The frist game ended in a 5-3 victory for Oilers Vs Wild. 

Here is a map of the entire trip. Thats lots of driving!!
  

We got a new buddy for our way back home.  Paul won’t be alone now. The new buddy’s name is Phel. Phel is a little kangaroo with an Australian flag. Phels name comes from our friends Phil and Mel who gave him to us on our last day in Whistler. The little Australian will travel half of Canada thanks to Phil and Mel haha.

  
Our visit at Kicking Horse mountain resort was pretty awesome.  Labrecque, Darcey’s friend from university, brought us around and gave us a tour of the mountain.  The runs were steeper and different than what we are used to seeing in Whistler.  It was a really nice day, which gave us the opportunity to see the mountains around us.  Darce and I had our first collision of the year.  We both started going down a steep run at the same time and hit each other. None of us got hurt and it was kinda of funny that our last day of skiing was our first collision. 
   We are now out of British Columbia. Darce and I told ourselves when we were there we wanted to see a grizzly Bear. We didn’t have any luck all year.  Our luck changed at Kicking Horse.  Kicking Horse actually have a fenced off area on the mountain with a grizzly bear.  The gondola goes over this area and all day we didn’t see him since he was sleeping. As the day warmed up, it was time for our last lift and well I’m glad we did it because we got to see Boo the grizzly bear.  It was the best way to finish off our road trip in B.C.

 Thursday night was pretty awesome!  I went to the Vancouver Canucks game with two guys from work.  Vancouver matched up against the Nashville Predators.  After the first 30 seconds of the 1st period I was scared a little bit since Nashville got a power play.  I wasn’t scared for long because the Canucks scored short handed.  The first ten minutes of the game was intense. The score after ten minutes was 3-2 for Vancouver.  The first period ended 4-2 for Vancouver.  The rest of the game was really awesome and Vancouver out shot Nashville 45 to 22. The final score was 6-2 and in the last minute of play there was a big fight. A bunch of players got into it and everyone was cheering, I was pretty pumped myself. This Hockey game got me really excited and now I can’t wait to watch the other 7 games on our way back home.

 Darcey and I are heading back home the 17th of March. We only have like 2 weeks left in Whistler and that’s 8 working days each.  We have a whole road trip planned for the way back home. We will begin by driving to Golden, B.C. the first day. In Golden we will be visiting Darcey’s friend Labrecque.  We will go skiing at the Kicking Horse ski resort.  From Golden we will be heading to Calgary were our cousin Steph will greet us in his house again for a week. While in Calgary we will probably get another oil change and print out all our maps for the way home.  This is where the NHL action begins.  On the 24th we will be going to Edmonton to watch the Oilers play against Minnesota.  On the 25th we will be in Calgary to watch the Flames against the Vancouver Canucks.  The 26th we leave Calgary and head towards Minnesota.  The 28th we watch Minnesota vs Vancouver. Then we drive to Chicago to watch them play versus Columbus on the 30th.  Then it’s to Pennsylvania to watch Pittsburgh play against Philadelphia on the 2nd of April.  After this game its back to Canada. We will be heading to Ottawa where we will watch the Senators play Boston. Finally, after this game, we will be in Montreal for the last game of the season against Toronto.  
 In Calgary, Steph will come watch the game with us. As for in Ottawa, Pat (our cousin), Darcey, my Dad and I will be watching that game. In Montreal the gang gets even bigger and we will be Darce, Pat, my Dad, Kendra, Dan Garon, me and two of Kendras friends. 
 Me and Darcey will be watching a lot of end of the season hockey which should be intense and we are really glad we have friends and family to join us for some of the games.

The holidays here in whistler were awesome.  Mom, Kendra and Ma Tante Joce got here the 18th of December.  Mom and Ma Tante Joce left the 26th.   As for Kendra, she stayed till the 5th of January.  Jon McNeil got here on the 5th and stayed till the 12th.  Now nicks fiend is here.  Our house is always busy and I love having guests over.  Who ever wants to come visit, don’t be shy and we would love you here. 
We did a lot of fun stuff during the holidays such as tubing, skiing, swimming, went to the movies, out for suppers, watched a freestyle skiing/snowboarding show, partying and the list goes on. I would like to say thanks to Kendra, Mom, Ma Tante Joce and Jon for coming to visit. I had a blast with everyone. Now that everyone is gone I have time to write a little blog. Work was really busy as well and the parking lots were nuts.  So many people came here for x-mas and I had a bunch of overtime. Now that the holidays are over, work is a lot better. This week out of 4 days of work I got to go skiing for 3 of those days. Two days for 3 hours and one day for 4 hours. That makes the shift go by a lot faster. Now next Saturday we are getting sled training and will begin to drive the snowmobiles. I am pumped for that.
I would be able to say a lot more in this blog, since we did so many cool things during the holidays but I want to keep it short.  Soon we will record videos of us on the mountain. Keep an eye out and enjoy yourselves,
Danny